SB2018020604 - Privilege escalation in IBM AIX
Published: February 6, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018020604
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Privilege escalation (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1692)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.The weakness exists due to an unspecified flaw in bellmail, caccelstat, iostat, lquerypv, restbyinode, and vmstat. A local attacker can gain root privileges.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.